Can American Men and Women Ever Really Be Equal?
Source: Time By Irin Carmon | Photographs by Elin Berge for TIME By the time I arrive in Stockholm, I know to expect the dads. Enlightened Swedish dads, with their easy security […]
A Serious lesson for Muslims
By The people who have an interest in the future of America were tense on the morning of Friday, September 28, 2018. Many of you may have done your share of the work to preserve our freedom and keep our systems from crumbling. I did my individual share of emails […]
Turkey May Target Mormons Next After Case Against U.S. Pastor
Source: Bloomberg By Marc Champion and Cagan Koc The apartment where Kenneth and Marilyn Abney once worked as Mormon missionaries sits opposite the local high school for Alsancak, a lively […]
Archbishop Viganò renews his criticism of Pope Francis in a new letter
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer September 27 at 9:47 PM The former Vatican ambassador to the United States who sparked a firestorm in the Catholic Church last month by […]
Jury: Jehovah’s Witnesses must pay $35M to abuse survivor
Source: Associated Press By MATT VOLZ HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Jehovah’s Witnesses must pay $35 million to a woman who says the church’s national organization ordered Montana clergy members […]
Magazine of Jesuits urges withdrawal of Kavanaugh nomination
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — The magazine of the Jesuit religious order in the United States has publicly withdrawn its endorsement of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as […]
For religious conservative women, the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing was particularly disorienting
Source: The Washington Post By Samantha Schmidt and Michelle Boorstein About a half-hour into Thursday’s testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, Jen Pollock Michel tweeted a simple message: “Watching the hearings. Lord, have mercy.” Pollock […]
Trump says he wants two-state solution for Middle East conflict
Source: Reuters BY Steve Holland, Yara Bayoumy UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he wanted a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the clearest expression […]
Exclusive: Turkey’s Erdogan says court will decide fate of detained U.S. pastor
Source: Reuters By Stephen Adler, Parisa Hafezi NEW YORK (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said a Turkish court, not politicians, will decide the fate of an American pastor whose detention […]
The Latest Attack on Islam: It’s Not a Religion
Suggested Reading: The Muslim Times has the best collection of articles promoting secularism in every country of the world and refuting Islamophobia Source: New York Times By Asma T. Uddin, […]
‘Science not fairy tales:’ Teachers speak out against proposed science standards
Source: Arizona Central By Lily Altavena, Arizona Republic Parents and teachers on Monday rallied outside an Arizona Board of Education meeting, and then took turns during the meeting blasting a proposal […]
What draws women to a religion that says men should be in charge?
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer September 21 NEW ORLEANS — Growing up in rural Mississippi, Gracie Robinson decided early on that she would never get married. In her Baptist […]
San Francisco museum shows off modern Muslim women’s fashion
Source: Associated Press By JANIE HAR SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The head covering is among the most identifiable elements of Muslim women’s dress and most likely to be portrayed as […]
America’s Jews are watching Israel in horror
Source: Washington Post By Dana Milbank My rabbi, Danny Zemel, comes from Zionist royalty: His grandfather, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, led the Zionist Organization of America in the late 1930s, and […]
Trump Directly Attacks Kavanaugh Accuser By Name
Source: Time By ASSOCIATED PRESS September 21, 2018 (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is challenging by name the woman accusing his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault, saying if the attack […]
Women and Leadership 2018
Source: Pew Research Center Wide gender and party gaps in views about the state of female leadership and the obstacles women face BY JULIANA MENASCE HOROWITZ, RUTH IGIELNIK AND KIM PARKER Two years after […]
Why Hasn’t Trump’s Refugee Policy Repelled His Christian Supporters?
Source: The Atlantic By Conor Friedersdorf Refugees are not simply impoverished migrants. A refugee is defined, by a 1951 international convention, as a person who, “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted […]
Feminism: From Ancient Rome to the Women’s March
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica By Adam Augustyn Dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster chose feminism as its 2017 Word of the Year, in response to both the massive Women’s Marches in American cities over the weekend following President […]
A Glimpse Inside the Hidden World of Hasidic Women
Source: The New York Times Orthodox Jewish women and men live in tightly defined, and separate, spheres. The photographer Sharon Pulwer was given a rare invitation to enter the private […]
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Dr. Mike Ghouse is a speaker on Pluralism and is the founder president of the Center for Pluralism in Washington, DC. He is committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeghouse/ Applications for The Global Youth Peace Conference is still open! The Center for […]